Spencer Bogart of Blockchain Capital believes that all of the promises and potentials associated with Bitcoin remain unchanged despite plummeting by more than 80 percent from its mid-December 2017 all-time high.

Bright Future for Bitcoin

Speaking recently to CNBC, the Blockchain Capital partner noted that 2018 was in many ways a transition period for the top-ranked cryptocurrency. According to Bogart, this year marked the beginnings of the institutionalization of Bitcoin.

Since the asset class has been dominated by retail speculation, the Blockchain Capital Partner says it isn’t surprising to see wild price swings. Commenting on the issue, Bogart said:

Bitcoin has been a market that is almost entirely driven by retail which is very unique. In bull markets, we go a little bit too high, and in bear markets, we go too low. That’s where we are right now [and] the reality is that the [Bitcoin] fundamentals have not changed.

These comments echo those given by Bogart back in November during the height of the price crash when he said gigantic opportunities still abound in BTC. The top-ranked cryptocurrency is down by over 80 percent since mid-December 2017.

For Bogart, the future is bright for Bitcoin, noting the influx of institutional interest. Both Nasdaq and Bakkt plan to launch their BTC futures in 2019. Other mainstream players like Yale and Fidelity also announced significant moves into the space.

On the present situation, Bogart commented that now is perhaps a perfect buying opportunity for BTC 00. However, the Blockchain Capital partner highlighted the possibility that Bitcoin price was yet to bottom out, suggesting it could fall to as low as between $1,000 to $2,000.

Early Stages of Price Discovery

In a similar vein, Mati Greenspan of eToro said that BTC is still in the formative stages of price discovery. Speaking to CNBC, the eToro Senior Market Analyst said:

As a relatively new concept, cryptoassets are still finding their feet in terms of value. It’s important to remember that all assets, in every market, experience a process of price discovery and that cryptos are no different.

Greenspan also noted that BTC has survived similar price crashes before and has always managed to recover, setting new all-time highs. For Greenspan, it is only a matter of time before the number cryptocurrency finds its “natural center of gravity.”

What is your position on the prospects of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, in general, come 2019 and beyond? Please share your thoughts with us in the comments below.

The year-long bear market finally forced many Bitcoin miners to capitulate by either scaling down or shuttering their operations. However, with the decrease in difficulty, some of these smaller establishments might want to get back into the business seeing as it is now easier to mine the top-ranked cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin Miners Adapt to Lower BTC Price

Back in 2017, the cryptocurrency market was on a high. Almost everything from ICOs to miners was riding high on the back of steadily increasing virtual currency prices. Things even when several notches higher in Q4 as prices increased massively leading to all-time highs for many coins.

However, winter came for the market, and a prolonged winter at that. While many aspects of the industry faced the brunt of the bear market, miners appeared to be holding for most of it. Granted, there were instances of capitulation especially from providers of cloud mining contracts like HashFlare.

The price crash that accelerated in mid-November took the BTC price 00 to its lowest point in more than a year. Many miners were forced out of business. Reports suggest that as many 800,000 have shut down their operations.

Commenting on the development, Sean Walsh, the CEO of HyperBlock, one of the largest Bitcoin mining firms in North America, said:

The prolonged downturn in crypto pricing is putting many crypto miners out of business, which is why we tend to be a little cautious and protective when it comes to talking about our business.

The Bitcoin price hasn’t recovered much since, however. But as unprofitable miners started shutting down, the Bitcoin network mining difficulty started to adjust and seek equilibrium with new market conditions, dispelling the ‘death spiral’ myth.

Hope for the Little Guy?

So what does this mean for the smaller mining firms?

In a recent op-ed for the International Business Times, the CEO of cryptocurrency trading platform, Atlas Quantum said that smallscale miners might be tempted to get back into the business since BTC mining difficulty is relatively lower. However, without any improvement in Bitcoin’s price action, such a move would represent a short-term trend.

The miners will still face the same problems that were present before, mainly their inability to achieve internal economies of scale. If the smaller miners don’t return, then the remaining players have an opportunity to consolidate their positions in the BTC mining sphere.

In the end, Bitcoin mining becomes a price driven endeavor, a simplification best described by the “survival of the fittest” model. Only miners capable of withstanding the cryptocurrency winter will be able to remain in business.

With the current market conditions, necessity is indeed the mother of invention as far as BTC miners are concerned. To survive, mining firms will have to look at process optimization (cheaper electricity and operational costs).

For the bigger players like HyperBlock Inc., nothing has changed. Jason Vaughn, site manager of the company’s Bonner facility, said that it was business as usual. Echoing Vaughn’s comments, Walsh also said:

We built HyperBlock to weather the volatility and pressures of the crypto market because we believe in the long-term promise of the technology.

Will smaller mining establishments be able to re-enter the market in 2019? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

Upon the news that crypto to crypto trading is now live on Coinbase, TheCryptoDog blockchain investor and commentator announced that the competition was officially on between Coinbase and Binance–sparking an unexpected comment from CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ).

Coinbase Gets Into Crypto-to-Crypto Trading

A lot of people in the community almost forget about Coinbase. For many of us, it was the first safe place to get our feet wet, buy our first bitcoins and experiment with crypto. Coinbase has garnered a reputation as one of the easiest and safest exchanges in the industry. But their fees are high at 1.49% and they don’t offer many crypto assets.

Once you’ve passed the point of experimentation and want to go further down the rabbit hole, you look for exchanges like Binance, Bitfinex, Bithumb, or OKEx that offer more choices and lower fees. Binance charges just 0.1%, for example.

However, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong must be doing something right, joining the list of crypto billionaires recently and slowly and steadily growing the Coinbase offering and suite of products.

Its “Coinbase Pro” exchange is designed for more professional traders rather than just the noobs, but its 24-hour trading volume is dwarfed by that of Binance ($157,329,619 USD against $879,392,527 USD).

Binance Is King of Crypto-to-Crypto

Binance, on the other hand, is the king of crypto-to-crypto trading with more than 400 active markets. Its native BNB coin is among the highest performing cryptos, currently at 14th place on the list.

Beyond paying for trading fees and incentives on the platform, the BNB can be used for payment of goods and services on sites like XcelTrip for planning vacations, and even high street goods.

While Coinbase is now entering Binance’s market by going crypto to crypto, Binance has also announced that it will be enabling fiat to crypto trading, starting with Singapore and rolling out into new markets.

So, when TheCryptoDog launched this poll on the back Armstrong’s news, saying the competition was on, CZ didn’t agree. He argued that it doesn’t have to be a competition and that the market is still small. He also admitted to chatting with Brian [Armstrong] from time to time about growing together.

Doesn't have to be a competition. Market is still small. We are so far away from saturation point. While we have some overlaps, we are different on: strategy/product/geography/even tweeting style. Brian and I chat from time to time, on growing the industry together, like USDC. https://t.co/whTALqXhNt

CZ Says We’re All in This Together

This is not the first time you’ll have heard this kind of talk in the crypto world and it’s completely different from anything outside it. Just think about the competition-hungry Jeff Bezos, who famously said:

Amazon will go after publishing houses like a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle

Nice. And who knows? Perhaps that’s what crypto will become. But for now, at least, CZ isn’t alone in his sentiments. They are echoed by more than just a few. In a recent interview with BTC.com’s Alejandro de la Torre, he said:

We all have to work together, we’re still in very early days when you think about users.

Litecoin’s Franklyn Richards also said the same of Bitcoin and Litecoin:

We don’t compete, we benefit… it’s money to complement one another, not beat each other up.

So, for now at least while we’re still in the “crypto against the rest of the world phase,” crypto companies are sticking together and even discussing strategy. However, you’ll notice that CZ said the market is “still small.”

You have to wonder when things start to grow again and the race for users is on just how quick these two crypto exchanges will help each other.

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Blockchain technology company Blockstream revealed the second phase of its satellite-based Bitcoin communications project Blockstream Satellite this week.

Satellite Coverage Expands To Asia Pacific

Part of a plan to provide free private Bitcoin sending and receiving without the need for an internet connection, the company now provides satellite coverage of the Asia Pacific region, an accompanying blog post confirmed December 17.

Phase one of the project covered North and South America, Europe, and Africa.

A major proponent of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN) implementation, Blockstream also unveiled an API to allow broadcast of data via Blockchain Satellite with fees paid via the protocol.

Developers promised the API would go live for users in January 2019.

“While satellite communications are traditionally cost-prohibitive, Blockstream Satellite will finally allow developers to adopt satellite communications in their applications,” head of Blockstream Satellite Chris Cook commented in the blog post.

…Natural disaster notifications, secure personal messaging, and sending bitcoin market data to remote locations are just some of the exciting examples of the power of this service.

Battling Government Internet Control

The Satellite project originally launched in August 2017. It works via a series of Earth-based ground stations linked to the Bitcoin network transmitting blocks to a series of orbiting satellites. The satellites then rebroadcast the data to the coverage area.

At present, users running a node require only a small satellite antenna and USB receiver to keep it in sync with the network without an internet connection.

Asked about the location and “government-resistance” of the Earth-based equipment, CEO Adam Back acknowledged the trade-offs in the current status quo.

“[A]s a geopolitical neutral money Bitcoin needs to work robustly,” he wrote on Twitter.

[F]or today it depends which country, there is some diversity of ownership of the satellites. [B]ut there are 195 countries in the world, some of which have disabled internet & mobile phone service in times of turmoil.

What do you think about Blockstream Satellite? Let us know in the comments below!

Swiss IT consulting firm Inacta AG has become an official partner of Blockstream’s Liquid Sidechain for Bitcoin, the company confirmed December 17.

Tokengate Meets Liquid Sidechain

Inacta, one of many Blockchain-focused companies headquartered in Switzerland’s Crypto Valley in the town of Zug, also became the first token platform operator to support Liquid tokens.

Billed as the first “production-ready” Bitcoin sidechain, Liquid launched in October this year, officials heading off initial criticism about the requirements it placed on Bitcoin network users.

Now, Inacta says it wants to offer integration services for Liquid, which should “help financial institutions to leverage the benefits of the Liquid blockchain.”

“Liquid technology has also been integrated in Inacta’s Tokengate, the platform for issuing digital assets in a manner fully compliant with laws and regulations,” the blog post continues.

“This makes tokengate the world’s first platform supporting tokens on the Liquid network.”

Blockstream’s Liquid Network partners also include Swiss stock exchange SIX, which itself has seen record trading of its Bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) as prices tanked.

Crypto Valley Tops Growth Charts

The news was the second involving Blockstream to surface Monday, the company also announcing the expansion of its Satellite project to provide Bitcoin network connectivity to users without an internet connection.

The Tokengate partnership comes at an interesting time. After its bumper year in 2017, the ICO market subsequently fell on hard times, with projects crumbling at the hands of the very regulation Inacta hopes to leverage to succeed.

Switzerland has meanwhile taken a more proactive approach to the sector than most, the company hoping to build what will serve as a “reference platform for fully compliant ICOs in Switzerland.”

Rumors about stablecoin Tether not being fully backed by dollar reserves are looking increasingly thin, according to the latest bank statements, which show that USDT is fully backed by dollar reserves.

2.2 Billion in the Bank

Purportedly, statements from four separate months, detailing the cash held in Tether’s accounts, confirm the Tether USDT 00 stablecoin is fully backed by dollar reserves.

Bloomberg reveals the latest statement showing that $2.2 billion was present in Tether’s account at Puerto Rico’s Noble Bank back on January 31st, 2018. According to data compiled by CoinMarketCap, roughly the same amount of Tethers existed on that day.

According to sources familiar with the matter, at least some of these statements have been brought to the knowledge of regulators as Tether is currently involved in a Bitcoin price 00 manipulation investigation.

What’s more, these numbers also match in to the circulating supply in September and October last year in the runup to Bitcoin’s all-time high price.

Bloomberg notes that the statements have been provided by someone with access to the records of the company and have been confirmed by a government official, without revealing any names.

Speaking on the matter was Stuart Hoegner, general counsel for Tether and Bitfinex, who said:

As a company that takes its legal and compliance obligations very seriously, we are not in a position to comment on the discussions we have nor to acknowledge the existence of subpoenas or similar legal requests.

Really Tethered

It’s also worth noting that law firm Freeh, Sporkin & Sullivan LLP (FSS) — a firm established by former Federal Judges, also confirmed earlier this year that “Tether’s unencumbered assets exceed the balance of fully-backed USD Tethers in circulation as of June 1st, 2018.”

Last month, Tether revealed that its new banking partner is Deltec Bank & Trust Limited (Deltec), headquartered in the Bahama, holds $1,831,322,828 of Tether’s money back on October 31st.

On the same day, according to CoinMarketCap, there were $1,822,014,579 USDT in circulation, confirming their dollar peg.

Earlier this year after Tether split up with its accounting and advisory firm Friedman LLP and after a couple of researchers at the University of Texas published a paper called Is Bitcoin Really Un-Tethered?

This reignited suspicions that the altcoin manipulated the price of bitcoin. In result, the stablecoin also experienced its own periods of brief volatility, breaking from its dollar peg and hitting as low as 0.86 cents in April.

But now, with increasing evidence that the reserves are there, the rumors that Tethers are being ‘printed’ out of thin air to pump the price of bitcoin may finally be put to rest.

Do you think Tether has the cash reserve to back up its stablecoin? Don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments below!

The tumbling market has caused an upheaval in the top market cap positions. EOS, for example, has surpassed both Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC) in terms of market capitalization. But despite being the 5th largest cryptocurrency, its network might be in jeopardy, according to a recent survey.

EOS Surpasses Bitcoin Cash

It’s safe to say that the cryptocurrency market has seen better days than the last month. For the last 30 days, the entire market saw upwards of 40%, or roughly around $80 billion wiped off its capitalization, currently sitting at a little over $107 billion.

This has caused some interesting alterations in the top five largest cryptocurrencies. While Ripple (XRP) 00 has unseated Ethereum (ETH) 00 for quite some time now, EOS 00 has also managed to occupy the fifth spot, surpassing both Litecoin (LTC) 00, and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) 00.

EOS’ current market cap sits at around $1,9 billion, which is over 50% less than what the project raised during its ICO. But despite EOS’ entering the top 5, the network’s condition might be in serious jeopardy because of declining prices.

Block Producers (BP) in Trouble

EOS runs on a consensus algorithm called Delegated Proof-of-Stake where block producers (entities elected by token holders in advance) work to produce the network’s blocks — a task for which they get paid in EOS.

The declining prices of the cryptocurrency, however, has caused a lot of them to operate below what is their break-even price, according to a recent survey, held among EOS block producers across different tiers. The study notes:

The breakeven point for Tier 1 teams is $4.04 per EOS, which makes them the most resilient group in the network. Tier 2 teams broke even at $4.35, Tier 3 at $4.19 and Tier 4 at $4.38. The only T5 respondent didn’t specify and the T6 indicated a price range of < $2.50. The average breakeven price-point across my dataset was $4.14.

The survey also goes into details to examine the average price under, which block producers are likely to declare bankruptcy if prices don’t recover in the near term. Over half of the respondents have said that it’s below $2.50.

What’s more, with the current price sitting well under $3, the situation raises centralization concerns as only a small group of block producers may survive a prolonged bear market.

“Instead of discussing a BTC mining death spiral, perhaps we should be talking about EOS Block Producers turning off their operations,” says Blocktower Capital partner Corey Miller.

Although the narrative is that EOS BPs are financially well-off, many are currently underwater.

Apart from declaring bankruptcy, the survey also reveals that “the average price across all Tiers at which major layoffs would have to be made is $3.08” — a price well above the current.

What do you think of the state of EOS? Don’t hesitate to let us know in the comments below!

It’s been one year now since bitcoin achieved an outstanding all-time high of $20,155 per coin and today it seems we’re testing new lows of $3,122, a total drop of 84.5%.

This massive slide in value may seem unprecedented but in fact, retracements of this magnitude have happened no less than four times in Bitcoin’s short history. To get a better understanding of Bitcoin’s price cycles please see this article that I wrote for Global Banking & Finance Review.

Because cryptoassets are such a new concept, we are still finding ways to figure out what the value of them should be. All assets in every market go through price discovery, but due to the rapid growth of the crypto industry, this process of price discovery is currently on steroids.

What does confuse me about market cycles, in every market, is the way that sentiment shifts to such extremes that traders end up preferring to buy when prices are high and to sell when prices are low when in fact they should be doing the exact opposite.

Today’s Highlights

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Traditional Markets

Stocks fell further on Friday with things turning downright ugly by the end of the day. There didn’t seem to be any specific catalyst or news story driving the sell-off, just more of the same backdrop that we’ve been talking about for months already.

One thing that did stand out on Friday though was that the banking sector was sold off more relentlessly than the rest of the markets as depicted in this graph from Bloomberg.

Also, it’s clear by now that US Stock markets are generally under more pressure than their global counterparts so far this month.

It makes sense too. The US seem to be the ones leading the whole monetary tightening trend, followed closely by the European Union.

We already heard from the ECB last week, which announced that it will be halting its QE purchases starting next year. This Wednesday we’ll hear from the Fed, which is expected to raise interest rates by a quarter point.

Shut Er Down

The US Government has until the end of this week to agree on a budget, and it does seem like they have their work cut out for them. Donald Trump is trying his best to include provisions to build a wall on the Mexican border but the Democrats are opposing this firmly.

If they don’t come to an agreement, we could very well see another government shutdown. Meaning, that the US stops paying its debts until further notice. This has happened no less than 20 times since 1976 and usually doesn’t last for more than a few days, but nevertheless remains a scary concept.

The feeling at the moment is that there will be a last minute temporary patch that will kick the can into early next year but we’ll see how this plays out. As far as the markets are concerned these type of events only add to the uncertainty.

Blockchain Advisor

Blockchain advocates have been celebrating the latest appointment to the White House Cabinet. Mick Mulvaney is a well-known supporter of bitcoin and digital assets and his promotion to White House Chief of Staff is definitely a big win for the community.

Mulvaney has not only been on record as supportive of digital assets but has even championed two separate bills designed to hasten their adoption.

However, the celebration may be a bit overdone. President Trump literally became famous for his catchphrase “you’re fired” and it seems his cabinet is no exception to this. Here’s a website that tracks some of the high profile departures and as you can see there have been quite a few.

It seems Mulvaney is no exception either and has already started his term on shaky ground. The top news story circulating this morning is a video in which Mulvaney called Trump a “terrible human being” during the 2016 elections.

Of course, efforts are already being made to smooth things over and we wish Mick the best of luck in his endeavors to promote positive blockchain legislation from his new position.

In any case, looks like we’ve got a nice surge in the crypto markets in the last few minutes. Looking forward to seeing where this is headed.

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What happens when you gather together a bunch of staunch, skeptical, middle-aged financial capitalists with a feisty, quick-witted Bitcoin economist like Saifedean Ammous? A whole bunch of sparks starts to fly.

If you do nothing else today, take the time to watch the below video in which author of the Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous, rips into The Spectator’s Business Editor Martin Vander Weyer.

Vander Weyer opens up the panel in a typically condescending manner, saying how good it is to be joining a “cult” meeting in the temple. He then goes on to compare Bitcoin to Sir Walter Reily when he brought back his first consignment of tobacco, and how utterly bizarre the concept of rolling it up and smoking it was back then. He says:

So what, you roll it up and set fire to it? I mean in 300 or 400 years time, what you’re saying might somehow enter the real world and become the norm but right now you would have to take a couple months in an asylum… to realize how completely bonkers most of it sounds.

Bitcoin Is Only Attractive to Gamblers

Vander Weyer goes on to call Bitcoin highly volatile and says that’s why it attracts gamblers and makes it unsurprising that almost all the action is happening in North Asia–or that the pseudonym for its creator Satoshi Nakamoto is Japanese.

He highlights his 43 years in financial markets and states that Bitcoin is so like many cults and waves of delusion, greed, and risk-taking wrapped up in smart ideological language.

Bitcoin Protocol Isn’t the Same as Bitcoin Exchanges

This is where Ammous swiftly picks up the reins saying that Vander Weyer clearly hasn’t read up on the subject:

He mistakes the Bitcoin protocol for the Bitcoin exchanges. This is as silly for thinking that if your dollars get stolen from your pocket then the federal reserve has been compromised.

In an entirely poised, eloquent, and highly comical way, he goes on to explain that we are witnessing the monetization of an asset, and that is always going to be volatile.

Moreover, he calls out Vander Weyer on his “racist” statements, reminding the audience that Bitcoin is a global phenomenon and not just limited to Asia and that in just 10 years, it went from zero to 100 billion.

At this point he really gets into his stride, saying that Keynesians like Vander Weyer cannot understand how people can talk about something that isn’t the next quarterly earnings or interest rate meeting. It won’t take “300 or 400 years,” as Vander Weyer said–but he packs the punch that it may not be in his lifetime, yet the rest of us will probably still be around.

“We’ll have to deal with the consequences of what your monetary system and your overindulgent 20th century excess of credit and war and garbage has left us as a society… By God, we’re going to clean it up,” says Ammous.

There are plenty more gems of insults and namecalling as the two go back and forth in this entertaining and educational debate where two men from different worlds, ideologies, beliefs, backgrounds, and generations collide.

Bitcoin or Shitcoin

Ammous goes on to say that all altcoins are doomed to failure. He says:

“Bitcoin Cash and all other altcoins are an IQ test, and basically, if you fall for them you fail.”

Moreover, he believes that Bitcoin has a chance of succeeding where none of the others do.

The idea that Bitcoin’s rise has to be disruptive economically I think is a very big misconception. Very few people hold significant amounts of wealth in their government currency… Very few people have a lot of their percentage of wealth in cash… Bitcoin will grow one user at a time.

Vander Weyer stands firm in his belief, however, saying that even if crypto does grow, it will eventually crash. And that central banks and governments will have to intervene; completely missing the point that Ammous is trying to make.

They can’t intervene. And if all this “shitcoin complex collapses, nobody can bail people out,” he says. He then goes on to brandish Vander Weyer as a relic of the 20th century.

We’re witnessing a genuine grassroots alternative to central banking emerging… Yes, it is volatile but it works.

Civic CEO Vinny Lingham is the subject of no confidence calls this week after his startup partnered with controversial blockchain entity Dentacoin.

Dentacoin Goes For Damage Control

Lingham, who raised $33 million for Civic in an ICO last year, had remained largely quiet regarding use of the funds, the ongoing cryptocurrency bear market taking a heavy toll on its CVC token 00 which currently trades at record lows.

Netherlands-based Dentacoin, which itself has gained a dubious reputation over the legitimacy of its operations, will now use Civic’s services to authenticate candidates for its dental health training.

News of the partnership immediately saw mixed reviews, CVC investors having eagerly awaited news of a turnaround move which would increase their fortunes.

On Twitter, users drew parallels between Dentacoin and Civic’s earlier deal with Cannabis startup Paragon in August. Paragon, which likewise raised a significant amount via an ICO, had made little progress beyond token gestures such as opening coworking spaces, Bitcoinistreported.

Last month, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) succeeded in ordering Paragon to repay millions of dollars in contributions and fines over failure to comply with securities laws.

Dentacoin was forced to respond to the barrage of criticism.

“This is another great step forward towards creating a seamless UX and authentication across all our tools. Leave your username and password in the past, for CivicConnect and Dentacoin are here to take you to the future,” an official wrote.

We are proud to be the pioneering project for CivicConnect. This is another great step forward towards creating a seamless UX and authentication across all our tools. Leave your username and password in the past, for CivicConnect and Dentacoin are here to take you to the future.

Delphic Oracles

Paragon and Dentacoin are just the latest PR battles in what has been a troubled year for Lingham. In January, the entrepreneur publicly said altcoin Bitcoin Cash (BCH) was “undervalued” as altcoin markets reached all-time highs.

“When I look at it from a product standpoint, I think the greater demand is for peer-to-peer cash than digital gold,” he toldCNBC, referring to Bitcoin Cash over Bitcoin, respectively.

CNBC had referred to Lingham with the nickname ‘Bitcoin Oracle.’

In the ensuing eleven months, BCH 00 has split into two chains and lost the vast majority of its value, one chain like CVC trading at the lowest levels in its history.

Unsurprisingly, the interview has come back to haunt Lingham, one user appealing to CNBC on Twitter following the Dentacoin announcement:

“Please stop calling Vinny the Bitcoin Oracle.”

What do you think about Vinny Lingham’s forecasts and Civic partnerships? Let us know in the comments below!